For years a favourite question in A-level history exams has been whether Hitler was a ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ dictator. It is an odd question since being a dictator suggests an exceptional degree of power, whether it is exercised effectively or not. Occupied Europe and the doomed Jews it contained might have found it a question […]
This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about Winston Churchill. It is clever, fluent and based on wide reading, in and out of the archives. It is original: no academic has studied the literary and theatrical Churchill in greater forensic detail than Jonathan Rose, who portrays him as ‘an artist who used […]
All of us have seen marriages in which one partner changes while the other stays resolutely the same, and the result is usually unhappy. It will start to matter to a wife that her husband does not hold his knife and fork properly as her friends become smarter, or insists on believing that the Beatles […]
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